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Jo Glanville

Editorial

PART ONE: DISPATCHES

Kamila Shamsie

Speak No Evil

Pakistan's Blasphemy Laws Are a Tool for Persecution

Charles Young

Do Not Disturb

The Trouble with Malta and Censorship

David L Sobel

The Urge to Classify

Wikileaks, Obama and Transparency

Salawa Ismail

Days of Anger

The Uprising in Egypt Was Not Unexpected

PART TWO: THE NET EFFECT

Evgeny Morozov

Taming Cyberspace

The Pressure Is Growing for Greater Surveillance Online

Jillian C York

Tools of Resistance

Egyptians Strike back

Ashraf Khalil

Route to Revolution

Digital Activism Is Now a Way of Life in Egypt

Hu Yong

Crowd Control

China's Microbloggers are Playing a Long Game

Danny O'Brien

Storm in a Haystack

The Cautionary Tale of a Program that Didn't Live up to Its Spin

Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan

Open Secrets

Exposing a Closed World to Scrutiny

Ivan Sigal

Going Local

The Future of Freedom Online

James Kirchick

Surviving Lukashenko

Alternative Media Tactics in Belarus

A Round-up of Technology and Censorship Stories

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Jo Glanville

Jo Glanville is Director of English PEN and joined the organization in September 2012 from Index on Censorship, where she served as an award-winning Editor since 2006. More About Author